Button-holder



(No Model.)

D. W. LONG & B. 1-". WINDSOR.

BUTTON HOLDER.

Patented Sept; 2, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL IV. LONG AND BENJAMIN F. \VINDSOR, OF LOCKPORT, ILLINOIS.

BUTTON-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 435,650, dated September 2, 1890.

Ap'olication filed June 14, 1890. Serial No. 355,506. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, DANIEL WV. LONG and BENJAMIN F. WINDSOR, citizens of the'United States, residing at Lockport, in the county of Will and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Button- Holders; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The special object of the invention is to make a device which may be substituted for an ordinary button-hole, which is expensive and tedious to make, while it is liable to become too large by wear or tear.

Our invention consists of a flexible loop and a wire screw, the former to engage a button and the latter for attaching it to the garment.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a plan View of our device as an entirety; Fig. 2,2. detail View of the wire screw, and Fig. 3 a similar view of the endless metallic chain made of interlocking links.

In the drawings, A represents an endless chain of metallic links, and B the spiral-wire screw whose shank b is passed through two adjoining links Ct at, which may be integral, and then tightly coiled around one of them. The screw is turned and worked into the fabric to which it is to be attached, when it holds with great tenacity. If the garment afterward stretches, the screw B can be simply turned backward until it comes out and be set back to the desired point where the two sides of the garment will be most comfortably held. The loop A is made large enough to be used with a button of any size.

In a great many cases the button-holes of the overcoats of lumber-men, brakemen, and others whose business compels them to lead an out-of-door life become so worn or torn that they will not hold to the button. In these cases our device may be applied without any trouble.

Having thus described all that is necessary to a full understanding of our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is-

A button-holder formed of an endless metallic chain and a spiral-wire screw secured to the end thereof, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof we hereby affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

DANIEL W. LONG. B. F. IVINDSOR.

\Vitnesses:

STEPHEN DowsE, GEORGE M. UNDERWOOD. 

